FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2019 file photo, migrants, many who were returned to Mexico under the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico," program wait in line to get a meal in an encampment near the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Mexio. One by one, asylum-seekers from El Salvador and Honduras who are waiting in Mexico for court hearings in the United States appeared before an immigration judge to explain why, after months of effort, they couldn't find an attorney.
“Our law is very complicated,” O’Connor told her in November before offering her a third extension to try to track down an attorney. “Immigration law is considered one of the most complicated areas of the law there is. ... Even lawyers struggle.” The coronavirus presents more hurdles as lawyers contend with potential exposure in small courtrooms and afor least 30 days. The Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review has closed many courts but continued with Remain in Mexico hearings.
Before the virus struck, The Associated Press contacted all 21 attorney’s offices on U.S. government lists of free and low-cost providers in courts that handle Remain in Mexico cases and found only two have taken on a large load. Jewish Family Service of San Diego has represented 68 people and Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso, Texas, has taken 76 cases.
Phones ring regularly with pleas from asylum-seekers. Employees sift through hundreds of calls and messages. Their families in the U.S. spend hours calling and following up. El Paso attorney Taylor Levy, who takes limited cases referred by Mexican migrant shelters, said she rushed to Ciudad Juarez to help a client who just escaped kidnappers. U.S. authorities allowed the client to remain in the U.S. but they spent more than three hours in line on the Mexican side of a border bridge while the woman’s kidnappers sent her text messages, threatening to pursue her.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
The state bar associations need to start requiring lawyers to provide asylum applicants assistance, free of charge, as a condition of state licensure.
“Imagine there’s no countries...nothing to kill or die for”. John Lennon. Wish it was that simple. Hopefully one day we can get there.
👏👏👏Bye freeloaders.
Oh no! That sucks. 😐
Then I suggest they return to their own countries!
They can wait others have to wait as well
Boo hoo
Oh darn...
Who gives a shit?
ReynaldoLeanos Like it or not
Too bad.
Who gives a F**K
Seriously.smh
Best news I’ve heard all day . Refugees , I don’t think so .
Sorry. Time for them to go home.
Screw them. US is closed due to pandemic.
My small biz is closed down, and my employees can’t get on the EDD website to file for unemployment compensation cuz the site keeps crashing. These are tough times for everyone. Where’s the MSM on this story
They should go home & stay home.
Too bad! Time to worry about USA first!
So finally a positive to this virus
AmericaFirst USHealth 🇺🇸
BYE
Why, the lawyers are progressive liberal Democrats who said that closing our border's are a sin. But now they hid behind them during this COVID19 scare Found them they are on twitter playing politics in thier multi-million $$ homes, they swindle by playing politics
We should just close our borders until this all passes
Build the wall!!
Point?
Sounds like Mexico’s problem to me.
OMG! Are you aware of what’s going on in the world? Stop with the propaganda. It’s about time all of you losers start doing your job instead of spreading misinformation like you always do. MSMIsTheEnemyOfThePeople FakeNewsMedia
They need to go home
That's great news!
National security outweighs immigration 🤷🏼♂️
With a pandemic, who gives a shit about asylum seekers?
Soooooo 90% of those that are lying to seek asylum in the nearest safe country are bypassing Mexico and not just coming here for the free free free free free and lack of criminal prosecution? Advertised by Demacrats because they vote 7:1 Demacrat once inside the USA
There would be more lawyers if the school system wasn’t so bogged down. Schools feel like they have to lower the standards just so someone doesn’t feel bad they didn’t even try to develop critical thinking skills.
So? We have enough on our hands right now and should be putting all of our resources towards the current issue, not taking on more dependent people. Stop it already AP. Trying to revive this asinine narrative is pathetic.
Good.
Lawyers? Really.
Prob not the time for this issue to be front and center.
Time to take care of Americans first.
Awwwwwww 😐
Tough shit.
Why isn’t Mexico providing lawyers?! Racists
We got bigger things going on at the moment. Sorry for your bad luck.
Boohoo! 😢 Two tears in a bucket...!
This is not a priority.
Their relatives in the U.S. are probably here illegally.
Asylum is a joke. They are playing our left-wing system to get US citizenship and everyone knows it.
there's a pandemic about to run amok, this is not a priority.
Great news
DEPORT THEM ALL!
Good.
They can fuck off, so hard.
Yeah bigger issues sorry
They don’t belong in the U.S., that’s why they don’t win their cases.
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